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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 6..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has Will moved a lot in his childhood?
(a) His mother loves to go to new places.
(b) His father is a travel guide writer.
(c) His father is in the military.
(d) His mother is in the military.

2. What does Ellie wonder about what she saw at the bottom of the ravine?
(a) If that might be brier rabbit.
(b) How the man got down there without a machete.
(c) If that is the same fox she and her father saw earlier.
(d) If the gopher can get up the steep banks of the ravine.

3. What is kept at the history museum in Washington, D. C.?
(a) The sword Ellie's father is writing about.
(b) One of the first anagrams ever discovered from ancient Greece.
(c) A book that had been in Ellie's family for generations.
(d) A rare antique humidor.

4. What does Ellie see as she opens her eyes while floating in the pool?
(a) Will is standing over her.
(b) A hawk is about to grab a squirrel in the oak tree.
(c) Her mother is frowning at her.
(d) Jennifer is on the edge of the pool.

5. What does Ellie see at the bottom of the ravine?
(a) The fox.
(b) A man.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A gopher turtle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Will confide to Ellie?

2. Where does Will say he just ends up sometimes?

3. About what is Ellie's father writing a book?

4. What is Ellie's parents' work status?

5. Where are Ellie and her parents living at the opening of the story?

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